Sweetapolita Circus Animal Cookie Recipe!

Apr 1

Apr1

If blog years were like dog years, I’d be an old lady blogger woofin’ away like a crotchety ancient pup. I’ve been blogging since 2008 – which seems like a century ago! But back in the early days, I met some pretty sweet (hehe) people online – including the one and only, frostingly gorgeous, ruler of spectacularly colorful cakes, Rosie of Sweetapolita!

Rosie has just published her first book – a brightly hued, dazzling book bursting with colour and Rosie’s signature beautified vintage style. From watercolour cakes to gold flecks to edible chalk recipes and how to make your own sprinkles (Rosie is sprinkles-obsessed!), PLUS all of Rosie’s perfected cake and frosting recipes, this book will win you over with a rainbow unicorn sugar kiss. Plus, there are tons of cute projects you can make with your kids, or a gaggle of close girlfriends! Click here for a visual preview of The Sweetapolita Bakebook … and you MUST check out Rosie’s “blog hop” featuring a MEGA sweet giveaway of Rosie’s favourite baking goodies and sugary cute products.

Growing up in Canada, it was always a pretty BIG DEALIO for our family to go down to the States for little shopping trips or holidays. Driving down from our hometown of Vancouver to Seattle, Washington meant staying at the Doubletree Inn with its floral bedcovers and little soaps, which meant piles of BACON and pancakes for buffet breakfast, murky green indoor pool of FUN, and being right next door to Toys R Us. Extreme heaven for children. Plus – gas station stops meant eyeing out the hordes of colourful, chemical, waxy delicious candies, chocolates and extra salty chips we could never get in Canada. Cool Ranch Doritos was a BIG DEAL, guys! And … finding, and glomping on forever, to MOTHER’S CIRCUS ANIMAL COOKIES. Waxy! Sweet! Pink! Circus-y! We’d pop them into our mouths and crunch away til our teeth felt gritty from sprinkles and the tops of our mouths were coated in, well, coating.

When I saw this circus animal cookie recipe in Rosie’s new book, I knew I had to try ‘em. These babies are crispy and oaty, not too sweet (except i drenched them in glaze because I am a glaze-maniac – glaziac?) and generously splattered in non-pareil style rainbow sprinkles. Perfect for a circus party, sez me – or to sit around and crunch away on.

Make The Glaze

Place the icing sugar in a medium bowl.

Slowly add the milk, one tablespoon at a time until you achieve desired consistency. I like my glaze a little thicker; if the glaze becomes too thin, add a little more icing sugar, a tablespoon at a time.

Add a dab of pink gel colour if desired.

Sprinkle away while the glaze is still wet!

Let dry; cookies will keep in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 1 week.

Want to win your own copy of The Sweetapolita Bakebook? Leave a comment below with your FAVE GROCERY STORE JUNK FOOD! Winner picked at glorious random!CONTEST NOW CLOSED. Thanks to everyone who entered! You can also order Rosie’s beautiful book through a link on her website here! Congratulations, my sweet friend Rosie!! You rocked your cake book so hard, you are so inspiring – and you should be so very proud. xo Lyndsay

Courtenay

Apr 1, 2015

Umm.. HELLO! Big League Chew, from Point Roberts, Washington, marketplace. Shredded EXTREME flavoured chewing gum. Came in a baggy suspiciously similar to a baggy full of chewing tobacco. Oh, the pretend treat foods we were allowed as children! (But so, so tasty!!)
Yay to sweetapolita!! Fool proof recipes! Even for those of us, not toooooo successful in the cake and pastry department! :p

Antonia Ehrhardt

Lillian C

Apr 1, 2015

How fun you’re on the blog hop with Rosie. It’s nice to find another blog that has so many wonderful recipes, like your macarons. I’m still afraid to try to make them. I’m with Michelle there who commented about the frosted animal cookies. I could also devour an entire bag in one sitting! How great to have a homemade version. Just started following you on Pinterest.

Kristy

Lisa

Stephanie

Apr 2, 2015

Your post brought back such great memories of my family and I doing the same thing. From Toronto, Canada to anywhere we could drive to in the States (Cape Cod, Chicago, Cleveland etc). Along the way, we would stop at grocery stores to pick up things we couldn’t get up North. My favourite items to get, to this day, remain the limited edition Oreos. Whether they were cake flavoured, ice cream flavoured, cookie flavoured… It didn’t matter! We didn’t have them in Canada and they became a must try, right now! After demolishing several different packs between my siblings and I, we would get to choose which ones we want to bring back home. Sometimes they made it over the border untouched, often times they would have already been eaten before we even packed the car! Thank you for bringing me back to my childhood with this post. Great blog! Keep it up!

Faby

Mandi

Apr 2, 2015

Obsessed with mini eggs. They used to only have them at Easter so my temptations only had to be curbed around that time. But now everytime I go through the checkout, those little purple bags are staring me in the face!